"While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, 'This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!'"

"Jesus said to them ,'Come and have breakfast' None of the disciples dared ask him, 'Who are you?' They knew it was the Lord."

Happy Easter! Today, we are going to explore the resurrection through 1 Corinthians 15. Paul began this letter to the Corinthians by reminding them about the cross of Jesus. In the middle of his letter, he dealt with many issues in the church, such as divisions, sexual immorality, people suing each other, marriage, worship, communion, and spiritual gifts. They had many issues. However, Paul chose to end his letter by reminding them of Jesus' resurrection. The death of Jesus for our sins and his resurrection are the foundation of our Christian faith.

In this second part, Paul discusses the implications of Jesus' resurrection. He does so by addressing the issue of some believers who believed the resurrection of Jesus, but denied the resurrection of the physical body. Some Corinthians were influenced by Greek philosophy that said that the spirit was good, and that the body was evil. So they did not accept that Jesus came into the world as a physical being. Paul argues that there is a seamless connection between the resurrection of Christ and the physical, bodily resurrection of believers.

Now in the third part of the chapter, verses 35-58, I'd like to share on the `glory' of the resurrection. How do we understand the term, `Glory'? When I was a teenager, Bruce Springsteen had a song `Glory Days'. The memorable lyrics are, "they'll pass you by Glory Days...".Now that I'm almost 40, maybe my glory days were when I was 18. When we are tied to our struggling lives in this world, we want to reminisce about better days. But there is no glory in our sinful lives on earth at all.